Ambagaspitiya Ambalama is a 18th century wayside rest built on granite pillars in Mahara Divisional Secretariat. The ambalama is situated on the Yakkala-Radawana road, 4.7 km from Yakkala. The ambalama is built with 12 granite pillars with a design similar to the Gallindawatta Ambalama few kilometers away. A half height brick and mortar wall goes around the ambalama with a entrance on the northern side. The granite pillars are decorated with various carvings. The stone pillars have peculiar carvings depicting the scenes of Ramayana such as the Hanuman with the chunk of earth with medicinal plants, which are all rare themes in Sri Lanka. The pillar top (pekada) is made of wood and is exquisitely carved. The roof is the typical kandyan style (doubled pitched hipped roof) and tiled with semi cylindrical barrel clay tiles (sinhala ulu)
A wayside rest located beside a natural pond overlooking a scenic paddy field, legend has it that King Walagamba who was travelling towards Pilikutthuwa, stopped here to break journey. The queen who bathed at the natural pond here had lost her hair extension (hawariya) at the particular location and the place was named Hawariyawala, and later, Averiyawala. Though declared as an archaeologically protected monument, Averiyawala Ambalama still serves as a wayside rest for those traveling to Adam’s Peak by foot.
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Nestle in the Kalutara District the Mannankethi Ella has a reputation of providing the local farmers with the necessary farming tools for farming purposes, the legend passed down by the near by villages. With a more nature in time waterfall which is hard to reach due to the extremely dangerous slope of mountain, the Mannankethi Ella relatively unmolested even by the villagers as there are no tracking and hiking or even navigating footpaths to the waterfall. The difficulty lies with the people having to Clean and make there own path every time they ventures there thus the high density of bio diversity can be seen. Many native flora and faunas, the butterflies and even many rare animals habitats are hidden there safety from the prying eyes of greed.
